Mr. Jackson was appointed as the Deputy Director for Technical Management for the Engineering and Technology Directorate at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, Maryland, in 2018.

He is responsible for the technical implementation of GSFC flight missions and oversees technical, safety and quality performance for the directorate. Mr. Jackson has 30 years of engineering development experience for NASA suborbital, space technology, science, and human spaceflight missions.

Prior to his current position, Mr. Jackson served as the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) Chief Engineer for GSFC, providing independent engineering testing and assessments for NASA’s highest risk programs and projects. In 2018 he was awarded the Astronaut’s Silver Snoopy Award for his work on the Commercial Crew Program to improve human space flight safety.

In 2014, Mr. Jackson was detailed to the NASA Office of Associate Administrator where he led an enterprise level strategic assessment on NASA’s space environments test capabilities. He has also served as Deputy Program Manager for Space Communications and Exploration; Associate Chief of Electrical Engineering; NESC Deputy Avionics Technical Fellow; Acting Branch Head of Microwave Communications; and Group Leader in the Flight Electronics Branch. He was Avionics Systems Lead for the Magnetospheric MultiScale Mission, Product Development Lead (PDL) for the International Space Station Express Logistics Carrier, PDL for Space Technology-5, and design engineer for Earth Orbiter-1 and the Naval Research Laboratory’s Microelectronics and Photonics Test Bed.

Mr. Jackson started his career as a cooperative education intern at Wallops Flight Facility in 1991.

Mr. Jackson graduated with a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University in 1999 and a Bachelor’s in Physics from Salisbury State University in 1994. He is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration degree from the Jack Welch Management Institute.